
Alex Ross Perry is an American filmmaker and actor. He has written and directed a series of feature films centred on unconventional characters and rife with the anxieties and joys of creation. His films have been internationally acclaimed at film festivals such as Sundance, Toronto, Locarno, Berlin, and others. He is most known for Listen Up Philip, which premiered in 2014 at the Sundance Film Festival and later won the Special Jury Prize at the 2014 Locarno International Film Festival, and Her Smell (2018), which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and screened at the New York Film Festival the same year. Besides being a prolific independent filmmaker with many of his fiction feature films internationally recognised, he also experimented with documentary, non-fiction, and music. His documentary-fiction hybrid, Pavements (2024), is an experimental musical biopic concert film that premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.

Joshy
2016 · as Adam

Pavements
2025 · as Self (uncredited)

An Almost Christmas Story
2024 · as Dave The Dog (voice)

Tiny Furniture
2010 · as Ashlynn's Friend

The Color Wheel
2012 · as Colin

At the Video Store
2019 · as Self

Kim's Video
2023 · as Self

7 Chinese Brothers
2015 · as Hats at Cars

Devil Town
2015 · as Detective Ira Goldberg

Somebody Up There Likes Me
2013 · as Pizza Customer #1

Honky Kong
2021 · as David

Happy Life
2011 · as Donald

Green
2011 · as Phillip Roth expert

90 Years of the Music Box Theatre
2019 · as Self

The Last Film
2013 · as Alex

Impolex
2009 · as Voice: "It's a dud!"

Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes
2020

Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
2020 · as Self